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unsichtbarre
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Do more replica restore points cause slower snapshot removal?

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I am addressing a Change Management request to increase replica restore points (based on hourly RPO) from 14 to 24, in order to cover the gap between daily incremental backups.

Source is all-SSD vSAN. Target is all-SSD IP SAN. VMware vSphere 6.7

The job(s) process quickly at the source (3-5 minutes, even for the largest and most active VMs) but "Applying retention policy" (AKA: removing the snapshot at the target) takes 45-120 minutes!

Just wondering if this is due to the increase in replica restore points?

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Re: Do more replica restore points cause slower snapshot removal?

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Hello,
many snapshots make the snapshot handling on the target side taking longer, yes.

It has nothing to do with Veeam. Just create 24 snapshot on a production machine and try to remove one of them :-)

Best regards,
Hannes
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